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===media type="custom" key="28358401" This sub-page and its discussion part is dedicated to preparation, conducting, post conference commenting, further research and publishing planning of the RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management (host committee) session **Self-Management as Simultaneous Goal and Means of Overcoming Systemic Accumulation of Capital Crisis** ===

** Session Description: **
 The main aim of this session is to initiate longitudinal, multidisciplinary and multi-perspective comparative research of self-management theory and practice, focusing what is common and what is specifically different between concepts and practices of self management, participation and organizational democracy, all three contained in the official name of RC10. This session calls for face to face and virtual dialogue (at http://isarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com/ISA+2016 and discussion part of http://isarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com/Self-Management+As+Simultaneous+Goal+and+Means) on theoretical and empirical, quantitative and qualitative social relations’ transformation oriented research of historical, socially structured and individual sources of undesirable present state of social inequality, oppression, re-colonization war and ecological disaster, on the one hand, and diverse visions of attainment of desirable alternative futures of equality, freedom, solidarity and ecological sustainability on the other, focusing participation in substantially democratic and self-managing overcoming of class division of alienated labor on managing and executing work functions as simultaneous goal and means of desirable future attainment.

Format: Oral Language: English; Spanish; Franch. All effort will be exerted to enable dialoguing on a common theme of participants speaking different languages, mostly with help of google translate program, dictionaries and mutual help : ).

Session Organizer **Vera VRATUSA **Prof.Dr. (retired): Belgrade UniversitySerbia Email: vvratusa@sezampro.rs  **esociologyvera **  author publisher 978-86-88347, creator and organizer of ISA RC 10 forum wiki and other esociology wikis under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Licens

Chair: Azril BACAL ROIJ, Uppsala University, Department of Sociology, Sweden, Sweden

Abstracts submitted to this session:
 Keywords:  economic democracy and social ownership
 * Abstract ID# 76274 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">Title: ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">Europe One Hundred Years from Now: Towards Democratic Control of the Economy **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">Gerard KESTER **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">, retired, Netherlands
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">Abstract: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> The core values //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">liberte, egalite, fraternite //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> were proclaimed in the 19th century but did not result in durable institutions that gave flesh and blood to these principles. When by the end of the 21st century Europe was 're-invented' in a second Enlightenment which led to the United States of Europe (see twin paper for RC 07) these values were re-examined and broadly debated. Also //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">democratie //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> was re-examined and now intrinsically linked to freedom, equality and solidarity, as an ideology on its own - replacing the 'invisible hand' of neoliberalism by the visible citizen, in an economy that was democratically controlled. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> For long private ownership had been the foundation of the economy. This was engrained in national constitutions of EU member states as well as in the officious Constitution of the EU. This relationship between democracy and capitalism was now revised as democracy is incompatible with the full primacy of private ownership - especially in as much as it yields owner power over other people's life. Social ownership was the new perspective: whereas private ownership remained respected in the private domain - in the public domain the production of goods and services came under democratic control. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> The European Constitution was changed (in 2100) and stipulated the primacy of social ownership. It also elaborated principles of economic redistribution as well as direct and indirect forms of democratic control of the production process. Moreover, a generous welfare state ensured the realisation of equivalence and solidarity. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> Ownership could still yield capital income to investing private owners but the running of the enterprise and the distribution of accumulated wealth were subject to democratic procedure. The concepts capitalism, communism, liberalism and socialism were thrown in the trash. Production relations were no longer a permanent conflict between capital and labour but a partnership of capital, labor and other stakeholders.

Keywords: Argentina, Workers’ self-management and Yugoslavia
 * Abstract ID# 73678**
 * Title:** Comparative Analysis of Workers' Self-Management in Yugoslavia and Argentina


 * Irena PETROVIC**, The University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy, Serbia, **Alberto Leonard BIALAKOWSKY**, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and **Maria IGNACIA COSTA**, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires., Argentina
 * Abstract:**

Throughout history, on the level of particular historical societies, workers’ self-management has emerged in specific phenomenal forms. One ideological and organizational experiment of exceptional originality has definitely been the system of workers’ self-management in Yugoslavia. It represented, at least on the plane of imagination, an unprecedented democratic as well as civilizational progress in general in the process of achieving a strong influence of employees on all aspects of their working life On the other hand, deepening of the economic crisis in Argentina in the late 1990s and early 2000 was followed by the emergence of enterprises that had been occupied (recovered) by their employees (Spanish - //Empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores// – ERT). Recovered enterprises in Argentina have been operating in the form of worker cooperatives and represent a new model of collective action of a part of the working class, in response to the crisis of primitive accumulation of capital. In addition, the emergence of such enterprises in Argentina has reiterated the historical and cognitive importance of studying workers’ self-management. Basic difference between the models of workers’ self-management in these two societies, apart from a different temporal and contextual framework in which they emerged, is that the model of workers’ self-management in Yugoslavia has been introduced ‟top-down” by the ruling stratum, while Argentina’s model born ‟bottom-up”. In addition, the difference between the two models is also reflected in the fact that this system failed to survive in Yugoslavia, despite a highly developed institutional structure. In Argentina the phenomenon keeps going on despite the economic growth and the increasing of employment. With this in mind, we are trying to determine here major factors in the failure of the model of workers’ self-management in Yugoslavia, as well as the possibility that such a model would work out in Argentina.

Keywords: cooperativism, recovered factories, self-management and work
 * Abstract ID# 78992**
 * Title:** Is the Self-Management Possible? a Study on the Recovered Factories in Brazil


 * Aline PIRES**, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil
 * Abstract:**

The context generated by the productive restructuring associated with financial crises and changes in the Brazilian economy in the late 1990s led to the collapse of many companies and resulted in increased unemployment and increasing instability and insecurity of labor relations. Thus, workers sought other forms of livelihood, including the associated work. ANTEAG (Associação Nacional de Trabalhadores em Empresas de Autogestão e Participação Acionária) [National Association of Self-Management Companies’ Workers] emerged in this context, with the goal of supporting groups of workers to unite and take control of bankrupt factories in which they worked, preserving their jobs. So, the first “recovered factories” emerged. At this time, the movement of the Solidarity Economy also begins to grow, and Unisol Brazil (Central de Cooperativas e Empreendimentos Solidários) [Central of Cooperatives and Solidary Enterprises] arises to support various types of solidary economic enterprises, including the recovered factories. Thus, our purpose is to make a general analysis of the current situation of recovered factories in Brazil. To do this, we return to some of the pioneering experiments of recovered companies. Our goal here is to discuss if and how cooperative and self-managed values are present in these enterprises today. So, we performed a literature review of case studies about recovered factories and visited several experiences of this type, where we conducted observations and interviewed leaders and workers, using semi-structured scripts. In addition, we seek to look at our subject from an international perspective, so we visited Argentina and France. In general, we note that, although the ideals of cooperatives and self-management remain in the speeches of many workers, their enforcement encounters many obstacles in practice. In other words, to be viable, recuperated factories face many pressures in the market, which eventually modify some of your initial goals. __ [] __ __ New paper version: __

Keywords: changement social, industrie and kibboutz
 * Abstract ID# 75916**
 * Title:** Quel Futur Pour L'industrie Kibboutzique?


 * Yuval ACHOUCH**, Western Galilee College, Israel; The Institution for the research of the kibbutz and the cooperative idea, Israel
 * Abstract:**

Jusqu' a la fin des 90, prés de 270 kibboutzim fonctionnaient comme des communautés de production et consommation sous un régime de propriété collective des moyens de production. Déjà durant les années 60, l'industrie était devenue la première source de revenus des kibboutzim, devançant ainsi l'agriculture. Malgré le succès de son industrie durant plusieurs décennies, et suite a la crise des années 1985-2005, le kibboutz a largement renonce a ses principes d'autogestion, de participation et de démocratie au travail. Suite a la crise, la gestion technocratique et la hiérarchie ont été renforce, et un vent de privatisation a souffle sur le kibboutz (celle des revenus avec l'introduction du salaire, puis celle des logements, et des moyens de production avec un système d'actionnariat.) Les conséquences de ces changements se manifestent aujourd'hui: - Si le taux de croissance annuel des ventes de l'industrie kibboutzique entre les années 2000-2008 était de 8,4% (de 19 a 37 milliard de shekels), il est passe a -2,1% (35milliard en 2013) dans les années 2009-2013. - 346 entreprises étaient affiliées à l'association de l'industrie kibboutzique en l'an 2000. En 2014 il n'en restait plus que 224. - Alors que 122 entreprises ont été vendues a des investisseurs prives depuis l'année 2000, dans la même période seulement deux nouvelles entreprises kibboutziques ont vu le jour (site internet de l'association de l'industrie kibboutzique: [|www.kia.co.il] ). Ces quelques faits soulèvent de nombreuses questions concernant l'avenir. Les buts de cette intervention seront: - Une présentation plus détaillée de la situation actuelle a partir des données fournies par l'association de l'industrie kibboutzique et celles disponibles dans la presse spécialisée. - Repérer plus précisément les causes de l'évolution de l'industrie kibboutzique de ces 10 dernières années. - Tracer les différents scénarii possibles pour l'avenir de l'industrie kibboutzique.
 * Quel futur pour l'industrie kibboutzique?**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">Follows corrected translation of the abstract from Franch to English, done with the help of @https://translate.google.com/ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> - please improve further:

Until the end of the 1990s, nearly 270 kibbutzim functioned as production and consumption communities under collective ownership regime of means of production. Already in the 1960s, the industry became the main source of kibbutzim income, surpassing thus agriculture. Despite the success of its industry for decades, and following in the crisis years of 1985-2005, the kibbutz has largely renounced its self-management principles, participation and democracy at work. Following the crisis, the technocratic management and hierarchy have been strengthened, and a privatization wind began to blow on the kibbutz (privatization of the revenue with the introduction of salary, then ptivatization of the housing and the means of production through a system of shareholding.) The consequences of these changes manifest themselves today: - If the annual growth rate in sales of kibbutz industry between the years 2000-2008 was 8.4% (19 to 37 billion shekels), it went down to -2.1% (35milliard in 2013) in the years 2009-2013. - 346 firms were affiliated to the association of the kibbutz industry in 2000. In 2014 there remained only 224. - While 122 companies were sold to the private investors since 2000, in the same period only two new kibbutz enterprises have emerged (website of the Association of the kibbutz :[|www.kia.co.il]). These few facts raise many questions about the future. The goals of this intervention will be: - A more detailed presentation of the current situation based on data provided by the association of the kibbutz industry and those available in the trade press. - To identify more precisely the causes of changes in the kibbutz industry in the last 10 years. - Charting the different possible scenarios for the future of the kibbutz industry.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">**Abstract ID# 76425** **Title:** **Autogestión y Recuperación De Empresas Por Trabajadores En La América Latina: Estudios Comparativos, Reflexiones Metodológicas y Políticas.**Keywords: América Latina, Empresas recuperadas, autogestión and trabajo
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">Comments to Organizers: **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> Dear organizers, I send the abstract in spanish, but I can also try to prepare the presentation in english, if necessary.Thank you for your attention.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">**Vanessa SIGOLO**, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">**Abstract:**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">El artículo presenta un estudio sobre experiencias contemporáneas de autogestión en la América Latina, a partir del análisis de casos de recuperación de empresas por trabajadores en Brasil, Argentina y Uruguay, especialmente. Este fenómeno emergió en el contexto de redemocratización de la región y grave crisis económica en las décadas de 1980 y 1990, y sigue con nuevos casos en la actualidad. Primeramente, se expone la trayectoria de la investigación llevada a cabo por investigadores y militantes en los diferentes contextos y condiciones en los países. También se presenta la articulación e intercambio entre los centros universitarios, el histórico de encuentros y seminarios internacionales y sus principales resultados. Finalmente, se expone el cuadro general de las experiencias, indicando análisis comparativos acerca de sus características singulares en los países y también sus proximidades y semejanzas. El trabajo comparativo fue desarrollado con datos de los relevamientos nacionales realizados desde 2003, en Argentina, y en 2012 y 2013, en Brasil y Uruguay. Después de la presentación y análisis del cuadro actual de las experiencias, se propone un debate acerca del significado político del fenómeno en el capitalismo contemporáneo. Para el enfrentamiento de la pobreza, desigualdad social y extrema explotación del trabajo que caracteriza secularmente la historia de los países latinoamericanos (y sigue marcando sus sociedades en el mundo contemporáneo), las experiencias de autogestión indican caminos importantes, en la lucha por trabajo digno, la democratización de la economía, la política y la sociedad. En esta región del planeta, pero también delante los desafíos globales de la humanidad en el siglo XXI, las experiencias de creación de nuevas relaciones sociales de producción, con base en relaciones asociativas y democráticas de trabajo y de propiedad, indican cambios importantes en las condiciones de trabajo y de vida, que necesitan de investigación sociológica y de grande atención.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> Follows corrected translation of the abstract from Spanish to English done with the help of <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; line-height: 1.5;">@https://translate.google.com/ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> - please improve further:

The article presents a study on contemporary experiences of self-management in Latin America, starting from the analysis of cases of recovery of companies by workers in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, in particular. This phenomenon emerged in the context of democratization of the region and serious economic crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, and continues with new cases today. Firstly, the course of the investigation conducted by researchers and activists in different contexts and conditions in the countries is discussed. The coordination and exchange among international universities, historical meetings and seminars and their main results are also presented. Finally, the overall picture of the experiences, indicating comparative analysis of their unique characteristics in the countries and also their proximity and similarities are exposed. The comparative study was developed with data from national surveys conducted since 2003 in Argentina and in 2012 and 2013, in Brazil and Uruguay. After the presentation and analysis of the current frame of experiences, a discussion on the political significance of the phenomenon in contemporary capitalism is proposed. To cope with poverty, social inequality and extreme exploitation of labor that characterizes secular history of Latin American countries (and continues to mark their societies in the contemporary world), the experiences of self management indicate major roads in the struggle for decent work, the democratization of the economy, politics and society. In this region of the planet, but also before the global challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century, the experience of creating new social relations of production, based on associative and democratic labor relations and property, indicate significant changes in conditions of work and life, they need sociological research and great attention.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> Abstract #82240 <span style="border-bottom-color: #000000; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: #cccccc; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 0em; max-width: 750px; min-width: 400px; padding: 2px 0.5em; width: 712.5px;">**The Concepts and Practices of Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management in the Futures We Want** <span style="border-top-color: #cccccc; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 750px; min-width: 370px; padding: 0px; width: 750px;"> **Vera VRATUSA**, Sociology, Belgrade University, Belgrade, Serbia- retired

<span style="border-top-color: #cccccc; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 750px; min-width: 370px; padding: 5px; width: 750px;"> Paper investigates changing meaning and popularity of the main concepts constituting the name of ISA RC 10 on participation, organizational democracy and self-management, judged by the content analysis and frequency of their use in relevant sociological research, in the socio-historical context of a contradictory process of transition from proto-socialist state capitalism to full legal restoration of hierarchical and crisis ridden system of world capitalist economy, albeit dominated by emerging new hegemonic strong nation state(s) of the center, on the one hand, and contestation of this restoration in former Third, Second and First Worlds, through perpetual reemergence of social movements attempting to transcend production of exchange values for private profit by social production of use values for development of human capacities of each individual as condition for simultaneously economic, political, social and cultural freedom, equality and solidarity of all in humanized nature and naturalized humanity. The main thesis of the paper is that the main difference between concepts and practices of participation of stakeholders in decision making and profits and integral self-management of producers at the work place and consumers in the community from local to global levels of social self-organization, presents orientation on conservation, reform or overcoming of class division of labor on rulers and ruled and its legal expression, private property. Paper calls sociologists to self-reflection while answering the questions implied by the title of the 3rd ISA Forum: Who are “we”? What is “better future”? How does our socially structured value orientations on conservation, reform or radical transformation of class division of labor influence all phases of our research and practice of participation, organizational democracy and self-management, bringing about realization of self-fulfilling prophecies? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">**Keywords:** overcoming class division of labor, participation, self-management and sociologists' self-reflection. <span style="border-top-color: #cccccc; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; float: left; font-size: 13.33px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 750px; min-width: 370px; padding: 0.5em 5px 5px; width: 750px;">**Session Selection:** The Role of Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management in the Futures We Want

(further elaboration and application of mentioned concepts is contained as well in presentation [|Questions on the Work and the Sociology of Work from the Global South Perspective - the Experience of Former “Second World” )] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Summary of unstructured but relevant emails sent to ISA RC10 members and friends and this session participants from February 1915 to present (last editing 02.07. 2016)
Dear colleagues **sharing common interest** **in** **longitudinal, multidisciplinary and multi-perspective comparative research** of self-management theory and practice **in general**, focusing what is common and what is specifically different between concepts and practices of self management, participation and organizational democracy, all three contained in the official name of RC10, as well as in **Self-Management as Simultaneous Goal and Means of Overcoming Systemic Accumulation of Capital Crisis in particular,** during and after the Third ISA Forum 2016.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">I thank very much to all those who registered by April 5 at **[|On-line conference registration]**and thus enabled leaving **a trace of reappearance of the concept and practice of self-managemen**t in sociological research in the ISA official program and book of abstracts after quite a long time : ). <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">I would be grateful for all critical comments and suggestions - beside too long and therefore hard to follow through sentences, of which I am painfully aware of : ) Would you agree that mutual help in improvement of our research thinking, writing and communication capacities is fully consonant with the spirit of self-management?
 * S** **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">ession organizers are according to ISA rules allowed to present a paper in sessions they are organizing, but not the chairs ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">- for a very good reason, not to monopolize the limited time allotted to each session. Chairs of other similar sessions therefore decide whether the proposal of a given session organizer will be accepted or not. Due to overcrowding in the session of the first choice, The Role of Participation Organizational Democracy and Self-anagement in the Futures We Want, that session organizers transferred my abstract #82240 they originally accepted for oral presentation, to this session.

Since 30. April 2016, we have found with the help of RC10 Program coordinators among registered participants of ISA RC10 program a knowledgeable **chair for our session - colleague Azril Bacal**.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">**Under the free commons share alike licence**, however, all members of ISA RC10 Internet forum are ** welcome to post their abstracts and participate in discussion on the title theme on specifics of self-management if they wish to do so on this sub-page ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">. In this spirit, I am posting here my proposed contribution to the affiliated session with a necessarily "catch all title" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">organised by our RC10 President on the main ISA Forum 2016 theme. The authors of abstracts ID# 73678, 78992 and 75916 originallly have done the same and I hope that they will be happy with this transfer from the session jammed with 30+ abstracts, at the least as much as I am happy to warmly welcome them in this more focused session. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">It seams that colleague Vanessa Sigollo, author of the Abstract ID# 76425, as well as colleagues Irena PETROVIC, The University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy, Serbia and Maria IGNACIA COSTA, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, co-authors of the Abstract ID# 73678 **did not register** by April 5 2016, since Isaconf.confex.com system has withdrawn these two abstracts from the Program of this session. Alas, Alberto Leonard BIALAKOWSKY, the third co-author of the Abstract ID# 73678 did register, but has two other appearances in the official program (one of them being presentation of the paper [|The (re)Invention of Labour, the Worker, and Social Domination]related to the theme of this session when it focuses the possibilities for a transition from a mode of production centered on the use of forced labour to one based on reciprocity between freely associated producers). <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">I hope that I am expressing the feelings of other registered session participants as well, that we are looking forward to read Vanessa's, Irena's, Maria's and Alberto's contributions in the form of extended abstracts or drafts of full papers, and in the discussion part of our **virtual meeting point** at __ https://isarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com/Self-Management+As+Simultaneous+Goal+and+Means __. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">On the bases of the content of all abstracts of papers accepted for oral presentation and incoming drafts of full papers, which should be uploaded below respective abstracts as soon as possible if they are not uploaded already, several **themes/ questions/ relationships appear to merit conducting a threaded multilogue also //before and during the Third ISA Forum 2016// in the discussion part of our virtual meeting place**, to avoid reduction of our session to a successive monologues of paper presenters and isolated dialogues scattered in unstructured emails. Common themes/problems mentioned by submitted abstracts' and drafts of full papers' authors are: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">__**After the Forum**__, we should gather our human resources to continue systematic structural and longitudinal research of participation, organizational democracy and self-management, that is, alternatives for the future we want. Panelists, members and friends of RC10, namely, are affiliated to numerous educational and research institutions all over the world like <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> > > ... please, members and friends of RC10, expand this list... <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">We should use this human resources wealth and comparative advantage for **planning and conducting joint research projects with the comparable common core instruments** for data collection (see an earlier similar proposal here). <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">Organizational possibility for such continuous research work could become already existing ** Participation RN **which initiated colleague Garibaldo, after we all agree to expand the title of this research network by adding words "and self'-management". . <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">I am using this opportunity as well to **kindly invite one more time a****ll interested** in research of **participation** and **self-management**, to **actively participate in existing, open new and self-manage** relevant virtual threaded discussions on themes mentioned above, after following the link "join" in the upper right hand corner at @http://www.wikispaces.com/user/join?goto=http%3A%2F%2Fisarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com%2Fspace%2Fjoin, filling out the form (user name, password, email) and pressing link "join", if you have not joined ISA RC10 Internet Forum already in the past. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">Best regards and wishes, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">Prof. Dr. Vera Vratuša, Belgrade University Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, retired <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">[] <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 1046.5px; width: 1px;">
 * self-management as a cooperative tool for keeping workplace for the employed or management technique raising workers' productivity for the owners at the enterprise level within existing dominant mode of production vs self-management as collectively co-created emergence of a new mode of production at all levels of society
 * relationship between class division of labor, private ownership and social ownership through time
 * socially and ecologically destructive dominant capitalist competitive market allocation of scarce resources and investment funds versus self-managing solidary planning of coopertive production of use value by freely asciated producers and consumers from the local to global levels
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">spontaneity, self-organization, egalitarianism and direct democracy from below versus professionalization, differentiation, hierarchical organization from above and representative democracy
 * formal legal institutionalization of proclaimed social relationships versus real state of distribution of social power and influence;
 * importance of participatory and emancipating collective and individual self-education for self-management, moral and material motivation for taking over both rights and responsibilities and overcoming wage-worker mentality
 * three generations dynamics of participation and self-management processes
 * starting reform or revolutionary transformation value orientation of researcher towards idea and practice of self-management
 * **CLS**, The Centre for Labour Studies, [|www.um.edu.mt/cls]
 * **Chuô** University Fuda, Tokyo, <span class="w_hl">Japan, @http://global.chuo-u.ac.jp/english/
 * **DUT**, Durban Univeristy of Technology, @http://www.dut.ac.za/
 * **Flinders University** - Adelaide, South Australia, @http://www.flinders.edu.au/
 * **Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani**, Facultad de Ciencias sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, []
 * **Institute for Sociological Research**, Belgrade University, Faculty of Philosophy, []
 * **Institute of Sociology**, Russian Academy of Sciences, <span class="w_hl">Russia, @http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/rlms-hse/team/isrosan
 * **ISS -EUR.nl - International Institute of Social Studies,** []
 * **KIA**, Kibbutz Industry Association,@http://www.kia.co.il/infoeng/kibbutz.htm
 * **KILA**,Kerala Institute of Local Administration, India, @http://www.kilaonline.org/?q=node/1
 * University of **Kwa-zulu Natal**, South Africa,@http://www.ukzn.ac.za/
 * University, **Peking**, <span class="w_hl">China, @http://english.pku.edu.cn/index.htm
 * Universidade de **Sao Paulo**, Brazil, http://www5.usp.br/english/?lang=en
 * **Western Galilee** College, Israel,@http://www.wgalil.ac.il/category/English

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Abstract #82240
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: #cccccc; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 0em; max-width: 750px; min-width: 400px; padding: 2px 0.5em; width: 712.5px;">**The Concepts and Practices of Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management in the Futures We Want** <span style="border-top-color: #cccccc; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 750px; min-width: 370px; padding: 0px; width: 750px;"> **Vera VRATUSA**, Sociology, Belgrade University, Belgrade, Serbia

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-top-color: #cccccc; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 750px; min-width: 370px; padding: 5px; width: 750px;"> **Abstract Text:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-top-color: #cccccc; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 750px; min-width: 370px; padding: 5px; width: 750px;"> Paper investigates changing meaning and popularity of the main concepts constituting the name of ISA RC 10 on participation, organizational democracy and self-management, judged by the content analysis and frequency of their use in relevant sociological research, in the socio-historical context of a contradictory process of transition from proto-socialist state capitalism to full legal restoration of hierarchical and crisis ridden system of world capitalist economy, albeit dominated by emerging new hegemonic strong nation state(s) of the center, on the one hand, and contestation of this restoration in former Third, Second and First Worlds, through perpetual reemergence of social movements attempting to transcend production of exchange values for private profit by social production of use values for development of human capacities of each individual as condition for simultaneously economic, political, social and cultural freedom, equality and solidarity of all in humanized nature and naturalized humanity. The main thesis of the paper is that the main difference between concepts and practices of participation of stakeholders in decision making and profits and integral self-management of producers at the work place and consumers in the community from local to global levels of social self-organization, presents orientation on conservation, reform or overcoming of class division of labor on rulers and ruled and its legal expression, private property. Paper calls sociologists to self-reflection while answering the questions implied by the title of the 3rd ISA Forum: Who are “we”? What is “better future”? How does our socially structured value orientations on conservation, reform or radical transformation of class division of labor influence all phases of our research and practice of participation, organizational democracy and self-management, bringing about realization of self-fulfilling prophecies? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-top-color: #cccccc; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 750px; min-width: 370px; padding: 0.5em 5px 5px; width: 750px;">**Session Selection:** The Role of Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management in the Futures We Want **Title:** The Concepts and Practices of Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management in the Futures We Want **Submitter's E-mail Address:** vvratusa@sezampro.rs **Keywords:** overcoming class division of labor, participation, self-management and sociologists' self-reflection <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: #cccccc; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; margin: 0em 0em 1em 0px; max-width: 750px; min-width: 370px; padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.2em 5px; width: 750px;">First Author <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-top-color: #cccccc; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 750px; min-width: 370px; padding: 0.5em 5px 5px; width: 750px;"> //**Primary Author**// Vera VRATUSA Belgrade University, Serbia f
 * E-mail Address:** vvratusa@sezampro.rs